The last movie you saw...

[maxpayne2409]

watched Home Alone, and scrooged today

So... was that your coming out or do you have more to say? :p

frankly if you don't like christmas films on christmas eve your a dead gay rape fag

[spudthedestroyer]

He has found a formular that is cheap to produce, dosn't return a billion bucks but makes a profit

Actually, no they don't. None of his films make a profit, at all... they fail completely at box office and this harms cinemas. He makes a living through a tax loop hole, which has recently been closed by the German government.

Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.

He essentially gets some money back from German tax payers.

[Jynks]

exactly. His movies make HIM money.... he dosn't give a shit about them.... a true explotation diretor.

[dinky]

heh.

regarding christmas movies, if you're over 10 and feel that way max, there's probably something wrong with you. that said, there are some really really great christmas movies...they just aren't exactly christmas movies: NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION, DIE HARD, GREMLINS, NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. they are all at least very good (more like great or phenomenal). and there are plenty of decent christmas movies (rudolph with the isle of misfit toys comes to mind, as does SCROOGED for bill murray's GROUNDHOG DAY routine). but the vast majority of them are complete and utter trash, just like the vast majority of holiday tv episodes (even if part of a very good series) are complete and utter trash. and yes, I imagine this is something like what rape must feel like when I walk into them.

merry christmas.

[maxpayne2409]

heh.

and there are plenty of decent christmas movies (rudolph with the isle of misfit toys comes to mind, as does SCROOGED for bill murray's GROUNDHOG DAY routine).

so basically concidering one of the 2 films i saw was scrooged, your saying 50% of the christmas movies i watched were good

[dinky]

scrooged is respectable christmas fare. imo of course.

watched THE DARK KNIGHT in bluray. thoroughly enjoyed it.

also got KUNG FU PANDA. prolly watch it tomorrow. need to get IRON MAN and maybe WALL-E as well (amazon gift certs).

[Jynks]

Come on.. everyone like scrooge... stapel the rein dear horns on the field mouse?! GOLD!!!!

[maxpayne2409]

everyone does except spud, he's too non conformist and elite that he can't like things... at all

[spudthedestroyer]

could be a worse, i could be a wank-formist... what was it again, 2001: A space travesty?

Its not that I'm non-conformist, I simply do not subscribe to the misguided view that everything made in the 80s was brilliant as most young pups do.

I don't think I've seen Scrooged, but Bill Murray usually does good films.

[maxpayne2409]

HA well home alone was made in the early 90s so up your big fat retarded spotty nerd arse, you think your so much better then everyone else, and you've not even seen scrooged to make an accurate assumption of whether its good or crap

[dinky]

max, hun, I liked HOME ALONE too - when I was 13. it was a fad movie. a sign of its time. and otherwise complete christmas cheese.

watched KUNG FU PANDA. liked just as much the second time around.

I got kinda angry whilst reading this week's EW. It was their year-in-review issue, and both movie critics had WALL-E in their top ten - the female, whom I tend to disagree with more often and along the typical gender stereotypes, had WALL-E as the movie of the year. WTF? man! W-T-F? it's not a BAD movie. but it's a fucking generithon. yes. the first 20 minutes are marvelous. but you know what? there are another 70+ minutes of movie, and it ain't ground breaking. It's bandwagon conformity at every turn. it's technical perfection without an iota of originality outside the first 20 minutes. I'm a sci-fi guy. I see little sci-fi nods all over the film. and you know what? I still wasn't impressed. I certainly wasn't gushing. and this ISN'T one of my make or break movies of the summer. it's not like I had impossibly high expectations. I think the whole critical community are drinking the Koolaid on this thing. they're PIXwhores. kids are bored by it, and its plot/themes are too kiddie for adult. meh.

I think the other guy picked THE DARK KNIGHT. I won't argue with that as I've seen it 3-4 times, and it's still the best movie I've seen this year. But I haven't seen any of the oscar fodder. BENJAMIN BUTTON looks interesting. and THE SPIRIT, of course, I'll need to give a look. But just to give you an idea of how fuct these two lists are, his number 2 or thereabouts was TROPIC THUNDER. I mean...some very good parts, but for that kind of comedy, it wasn't spectacular. you're better off youtubing RDJ's and Tom Cruise's riffs. It'll save you 60 minutes of mediocre-to-bad jokes.

[maxpayne2409]

RDJ was easily the best thing about that film

Dinky give me your opinion on this (everyone i know with a brain agrees) Tropic Thunder felt in a waya lot like an extended a-team vietnam based episode

[dinky]

I think people actually died in TROPIC THUNDER. and, of course, the TT team were inept where the a-team were macguyver clones. I guess they're both (dys)functional comic families with guns though. the comparison didn't occur to me, but I guess there is that cheesy feel like when shit blows up and guys jump out of jeeps, etc.

oh. the B. A. and Murdock relationship was very similar to RDJ and Stiller. yeah. that part of it works for me.

[maxpayne2409]

people died in the a-team... just not onscreen..... and never at the hands of said lettered team lol

[Jynks]

WALL-E in their top ten

Easy in the top ten. No question there imo. I think the movie was very good. I had no problems with any of the film. I loved the stuff on earth and the stuff on the sapce ship was just as good. All in all the only thing i can complain about in that film is the "eeevvvvvvva" and "waaaaaaalllllliiiiie" getting said all the time was a little anoying.

I think the other guy picked THE DARK KNIGHT.

Yea top ten i supose for sure. Personaly i think it is so over rated. Batman voice is so lame, stupid tacked on two face plot... i could go on. In fact i have not been able to sit though this 2nd time. If it wasn't for the brilliant performance of the Joker this film would have been typical hollywood trash.

Yes top 10 of the year for sure, But well just not my thing. I still remeber laughing my ass off in the cinima as batmas talked... scoffing and booing at the scrreen during the "he is the drak knight" gay speach at the end of teh film.. oh man just remebered that was SOOOO bad. lol

THE SPIRIT, of course, I'll need to give a look.

Yea for sure.. need to check that out but it looks terrible.

what i watched

Brainstorm
Very good old school scifi about scientist that develop technolagy to record experiences and play it back on another persons mind. All is going well untill the maverk genious behind the project has a heart attack and her last moments records her death. This death tape causes all sorts of freaky trouble.

Interestign thign abotu thsi film is that not a huge ammount happens. It is a very realistic story about some crazy bollocks. Most of teh film focuses on how scientist can not keep control of their research and how it gets corrupted by the practical uses. Some pretty interesting theams. Also of note is the awesome optical visual effects.. (anyone remeber altered states or 2001?) These are film techniques that have completly disapeared, most likly never to be used again, so if your interested in movie history thsi is a great example of one of the lost techniques due to the CG revolution.

[maxpayne2409]

I enjoy the movie Brainstorm aswell, It's got Christopher Walken in iirc, a great actor

[dinky]

Lisa Schwarzbaum's 10 Best Films of 2008:

10. TROPIC THUNDER
9. MAN ON WIRE
8. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
7. TROUBLE IN THE WATER
6. WENDY AND LUCY
5. GOMORRA
4. WALTZ WITH BASHIR
3. THE DARK KNIGHT
2. MILK
1. WALL-E

Owen Gleiberman's 10 Best Films of 2008:

10. TELL NO ONE
9. MILK
8. THE CLASS
7. BURN AFTER READING
6. THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
5. MOMMA'S MAN
4. WALL-E
3. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
2. THE DARK KNIGHT
1. THE WRESTLER

I know jynks is the wrong person to put this to, but is this for real? WALL-E is a consensus 1-4 movie of the year? It's not even the best animated movie of the year. That's Pixwhorage. People are so whipped by Pixar that they worship their shit like it's gold. It's a good, solid mov(ement!)...er...movie. But they're completely full of shit. Meanwhile, KUNG FU PANDA isn't on the list at all? At all? Fucking-A, dude! TROPIC THUNDER!!! WALL-E! and no PANDA?

lookit this chick gush over WALL-E:

Years from now — yea, unto eternity — all who love movies will rank WALL-E among the medium's most profound, subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeously inventive specimens, ever. Never before have robots, Twinkies, a cockroach, and a lone, tenacious plant seedling intertwined so elegantly to tell a story of endurance, optimism, love at first sight, courtship, ecological destruction, postapocalyptic redemption, and...well, eternity. In fact, the scope of this epic often defies the limitations of words — and WALL-E pays homage with great wordless stretches during which the goggle-eyed robot walks the walk rather than talks the talk.

This tale of honest interspecies love in an age of corpulent, sedentary humans also defies the limitations of the photographic image — and that's what makes WALL-E a perfect fit for Pixar's CGI animation genius. We live in a thrilling moment when stunning technological innovation is reshaping the contours of moviemaking and, indeed, the structure of storytelling. WALL-E brilliantly seizes those opportunities with a thoughtful joy that speaks to both animation-savvy kids and cartoon-suspicious grown-ups. And out of the bond between a machine built for compacting trash and his egg-shaped, futuristic cohort, a modern masterpiece is hatched.

what the fuck is subtle about this movie? silence is NOT subtlety. it's SILENCE. the movie's themes hit you like a ton of bricks. it stopped being inventive 2 years ago. fucking Wal-Mart sells "green" groceries. WAL-MART! Green went corporate a long time ago. It's a technical masterpiece. 20 minutes of it are all new and ingenius...then it becomes just another kiddie movie, young adult fiction novel-type thing, that rips off giants of its genre(s) - 2001 being most promient among them.

and to add insult to injury, a friend of mine who's a movie fiend (she sees EVERYTHING) but has always dismissed animation - she actually had a conversation with the guy who made ICE AGE and said she "oh. the cartoon?" (she received a shitty tip ) Well she emailed me and said she's started to watch some animation and that she really liked KUNG FU PANDA and wanted some recommendations from me. I told her WALL-E was a must see. She replied hmm. My sister saw that with her niece and hated it. They said it was boring. That sums the movie up pretty well: it's a populist movie that isn't popular. It looks fabulous. It's Pixar. It's going to attract an audience, but the word of mouth was disappointing. It's boring to kids and kiddie to adults. she must've been sitting in one of DK's special battery operated chairs to make that the number 1 movie of the year.

it's not the best "film" (both lists are littered with an odd mix). it's not the most fun movie. I liked the movie. but get real. this is the movie they most agree on for movie of the year? wtf are they smoking?

[dinky]

d'oh: forgot to mention that I've watched some anime.

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST is great (although parts of it, being anime, are frustratingly stupid - I'll never get used to such conventions, tolerate is more like it)

FULL METAL PANIC has nothing whatever to do with the former, and it's really bad. there's a girl with big boobs and that's it. so if you wanna get your rocks off without actually owning any porn/hentai, I suppose this is the series for you.

TRINITY BLOOD is a post-apocalyptic vampire series. I quite watching after 5 or 6 episodes. animation is underwhelming. story and execution are flat. skip it.

GURREN LAGANN is another post-apocalyptic thing with voltron-like contraptions. it's like FMP in that it's comedy rather than drama. it's more watchable than FMP (I haven't given up yet), but it's not worth recommending. I really hate anime comic aesthetics. really really hate it. this one is more serious at times than FMP

[maxpayne2409]

watched Resident Evil - Degeneration earlier, really enjoyed it, it's the cg movie they released recently, It did feel at times like a cop show with a zombie based "hook" but when the zombies were kicking off the action was good.

Also the cg quality was top notch, though the only gripe with that i have is at times the mouths didn't seem to be well animated for certain words of rapid speech.

Another nice touch was they got the voice actor of Leon from re4 to voice Leon and the woman who's always voiced Claire since RE2 to come back and voice her again (I admit there's something about Claire that really does it for me)

Overall i'd give it 8.5/10, solidly made visually, with an enjoyable plot, but still room for improvement.

Oh also been watching Blackadder series 2-4

[spudthedestroyer]

HA well home alone was made in the early 90s so up your big fat retarded spotty nerd arse, you think your so much better then everyone else, and you've not even seen scrooged to make an accurate assumption of whether its good or crap

You do realise that I was referring to neither Home Alone nor Scrooged; but to an entirely warped sub-culture of unjustifiable 80s praise to which you are subscribed and are a prominent member

@Tropic Thunder, Tropic Thunder was a piece of shit. Yeah I said it, I've seen it, its shit... :p

It is a bad film, totally unfunny, and totally shit. I also thought Zoolander was terrible too

@WALL-E, great film, I'd concur, probably in the top ten of the movies that I recall from this year (ones that spring instantly to mind).

I've not seen Kung Fu Panda, mainly because it looks like another retarded dreamworks animation turd... worth a look?